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Daily Brief – Bank of England

Daily Brief – Bank of England

Humphrey Percy Fri 8 Nov 2024

Bank of England As widely expected, the Monetary Policy committee did cut interest rates to 4.75% yesterday but it is worth watching the predicted path of inflation currently at 1.7% which will rise to 2.2% in the next 3 months and which is not slated to fall back to within the 2% target range again […]

Daily Brief – Next on the docket

Daily Brief – Next on the docket

Charles Porter Thu 7 Nov 2024

Next on the docket Today the Federal Reserve will publish the outcome of its two-day Federal Open Market Committee meeting. Moving into this decision and prior to the mandatory blackout period, employment and price data remained largely consistent with a ‘no landing’ scenario. The market had been keeping a close eye on employment data, wary […]

Daily Brief – Great British Pound

Daily Brief – Great British Pound

Humphrey Percy Wed 6 Nov 2024

Great British Pound For buyers of USD and EUR versus GBP, the lead up to the results of the US Presidential Election have thrown up an opportunity given that USD has seen a weaker performance in the past two days. The likelihood is that there will be some swings in the next few days ahead of […]

Daily Brief – Not just the flow

Daily Brief – Not just the flow

Charles Porter Tue 5 Nov 2024

Not just the flow US election day is upon us. As we have noted, whilst the polls open today and much of the US electorate cast their ballots, there are two key elements to keep in mind. Firstly, many millions of eligible voters have already cast their ballots in the weeks leading up to today. […]

Daily Brief – US Election

Daily Brief – US Election

Humphrey Percy Mon 4 Nov 2024

US Election It would be distinctly odd on the eve of such a closely fought election not to comment on it, but it really is too close to call even though the Trump trade is cited as evidence that he is expected to win(at the time of writing). But what might markets expect once the […]

Daily Brief – UK Budget Reverberations

Daily Brief – UK Budget Reverberations

Humphrey Percy Fri 1 Nov 2024

UK Budget Reverberations Last week we posed the question of what it would feel like for the new UK Chancellor post her maiden budget. Well now she (and we) have found out: social media is vitriolic as are farmers, small and medium sized businesses, long suffering private school fee paying parents, people sitting on capital […]

Daily Brief – Unconvinced

Daily Brief – Unconvinced

Charles Porter Thu 31 Oct 2024

Unconvinced Markets had already experienced volatility yesterday ahead of Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ delivery of her budget to Parliament yesterday. A gradual but intense sell-off in GBP as the morning European session progressed could be written down to derisking and deleveraging GBP positions moving into the budget. In the days prior to yesterday, Speaker of […]

Daily Brief – UK Budget Day

Daily Brief – UK Budget Day

Humphrey Percy Wed 30 Oct 2024

UK Budget Day Chancellor Reeves has already leaked/floated so many potential measures for her Budget later today interwoven with promises/denials as to what are the red lines which will not be included in her maiden Budget, that we are all suffering from an overload of (dis)information while hoping that much of It, will end up […]

Daily Brief – JPY falls back

Daily Brief – JPY falls back

Charles Porter Tue 29 Oct 2024

JPY falls back The start of July saw the Japanese Yen appreciate from north of 160 Yen to the US Dollar down to a low of circa 140 in mid-September. The backdrop that had allowed the Yen to grind ever weaker appeared to be shifting in July. The prospect of monetary adjustment from decades of […]

Daily Brief – France

Daily Brief – France

Humphrey Percy Mon 28 Oct 2024

France Crunch time for French ex EU/ Brexit negotiator PM Barnier as he struggles to get his budget approved on November 19, as he leads his minority Government with the backdrop of Moody’s changing their outlook for La Belle France from stable to negative last Thursday. Targeting a whopping €66 billion budget reduction through a […]

Daily Brief – EU Economy

Daily Brief – EU Economy

Humphrey Percy Fri 25 Oct 2024

EU Economy For the second month running the EU economy contracted slightly. As ever a patchwork performance notable for Germany improving while France put in a particularly weak contribution. Worrying for France as well as the EU is that the outlook for France is not bright. No wonder the ECB was so keen to get […]

Daily Brief – The BoC follows the Fed

Daily Brief – The BoC follows the Fed

Charles Porter Thu 24 Oct 2024

The BoC follows the Fed At its September decision, the Federal Reserve took the decision to reduce its target benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points. The market had been oscillating between a quarter point and a half point interest rate cut in the weeks moving into the decision. Once the FOMC delivered their September […]

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